The best Italian craft beers have been proclaimed. At the town hall in Deruta, the winning breweries of the Cerevisia 2021 award were announced, with 100 labels from all over the country participating.
The Cerevisia Award was established by Banab, the National Beer Tasting Board, a committee born on April 30, 2013 by the will of the Chamber of Commerce of Perugia, now Umbria, the Region, Cerb, the Research Center for Beer Excellence of the University, the Municipality of Deruta and AssoBirra, the association of brewers and maltsters.
"After the forced stop due to Covid of the 2020 edition, Cerevisia has started again” stressed the president of the Umbria Chamber of Commerce Giorgio Mencaroni. 2020 was in fact a very difficult year for national beer, whose production fell by 8,4%, consumption by 11,4 and exports fell by a more moderate 4,8%.
A photograph with a minus sign, reversed compared to that of 2019 which had set historic records in terms of production, consumption and exports.
The winning breweries were: Birrificio del Vulture from Basilicata; Birrificio Gladium from Calabria; and Birrificio Gladium from Campania. Karma Brewery; from Campania the Monaci Vesuvian Breweryi; from Campania the Incanto Craft Microbrewery; from Emilia Romagna the Birra Amarcord Brewery; from Friuli Venezia Giulia the Cittavecchia Brewery; from Friuli Venezia Giulia the Foran Brewery; from Marche the 61cento Brewery; from Marche the Jester Agricultural Brewery; from Puglia the Rebeers Brewery; from Sicily the Etna Brewery; from Trentino Alto Adige the Lucia Maria Melchiori Sidrobirrificio; from Umbria the Birra bro Brewery; from Umbria the Birralfina Brewery; from Veneto the Acelum Brewery; from Veneto the Theresianer Antica Birreria di Trieste 1766 Brewery.
After the announcement in Deruta, the award ceremony for the eighth Cerevisia prize will be held on Wednesday 6 October in Perugia, at the Umbria Chamber of Commerce Conference Centre.
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